On 2/28/2014 10:05 AM, carolus wrote:
On 2/27/2014 5:36 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
, if you start one session of setup, select a
package, download it, and don't install it (for whatever reason), then
start another setup session and do the same thing with a with a different
mirror, you'll get the same package again under a different directory tree
(the root of that tree being loosely named after the mirror you chose).
Does this mean that install-from-internet is a better choice than
download-without-installing when the connection is apt to be broken? Or for
combining several overnight runs to cope with a slow connection? Currently
I'm downloading to an external USB drive which I then use to reinstall
Cygwin on several machines.
And thanks for the explanation.
Either should work OK, as the former is a superset of the latter. The key
thing is to not pick more than 1 mirror if you don't need to.
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Larry
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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